The Hundred Dresses

Award winning book, The Hundred dresses-1971, combines Eleanor Estes eloquent writing with Louis Slobodkin’s original illustrations to create a masterpiece. The main characters, Wanda, Maddy, Peggy and Miss Mason face adventures in classroom 13. Young Wanda Petronski has no friends in her small-knit community and routinely finds herself caught in between two school girls, Maddy and Peggy, and their despicable nature. One day Peggy and Maddy sparked a conversation about the dresses Wanda claimed to have

being made fun of for my last name “Hartung”. Kids used to ask me if my tongue was a heart and I would begrudgingly answer saying that Hartung actually meant royalty in German, which was a lie but it was what my parents told me to say. In “The Hundred Dresses”, Eleanor Estes illustrates these concepts that still hold true today because no matter how time goes on children will always be made fun of for ailments they cannot help. She explains how putting others down due to things that are out of their

E-commerce – This is about the purchases and sales of goods and/or services via electronic channels e.g. internet. It is very convenient to use online retail because it is available 24 hours; it is a global reach and ease of customer service. E-commerce was first introduced in the 1960’s and is not just on the web. It was created via electronic data interchange and through valued-added networks. In the 1990’s e-commerce was changed due to the introduction of Amazon and eBay which enabled costumers

different colors including pink. Before the 1950’s many teenagers would wear the same exact clothes as their parents did, in the 50’s we start to see fashion including teenagers as their own fashion. Teenage girls would wear more colors, and tighter dresses to get a finer look. We also see that the teenagers start to go farther into the accessories by wearing pearls, necklaces and waves many high class wives would too. Many of the guy teenagers would wear sweaters or leather man jackets and the “rebel

The clothing of the Middle Ages, like everything else was decided by the pyramid of power. The pyramid of power was the Middle Ages Feudal System. Medieval clothes provided information about the rank of the person wearing them. From the 11th through the 14th centuries, medieval clothing assorted according to the social standing of the people. The clothing worn by nobility and upper classes was clearly different than that of the lower class. Medieval clothes provided information about the status of

When one thinks of a genre they think of a book or a type of music. Genre can be thought of as a category of art. Fashion is a form of art, artists everyday are creating works that they feel people will wear and like. Fashion is a huge industry with thousands of designers that makes billions of dollars per year. Whether people realize it or not, every single person has a sense of style and has their own taste in clothing. With fashion there are different genres ranging from chic to bohemian to sporty

present day. I will talk about many different topics such as, how the styles of dress have changed over the years, how the design of the patterns on dresses have changed,and more. From 1770 to 1800s, women did not have certain freedoms. One of those freedoms in which women did not have was the freedom to dress as they please. The had to wear dresses with three layers in the warm seasons and four layers in the cold seasons. In the article it states ¨In the summer and spring women had to wear three

The time was currently 8:00 a.m. when I heard my alarm go off. I tried my best to ignore it about three times when I realized I must have something to do that's really important that I had to set up an alarm. I finally realized that my sister, Gabriela, and I had to go to the mall to purchase a dress for our cousin’s party. I got up, turned the alarm off, and went to her room. “Wake up,” I quietly said. “I still have thirty minutes,” she mumbled. “Get dressed,” I said as I was leaving her

waist. A woman's age also influenced what she wore. They wore two piece dresses, which was constructed of many individual parts to it. “The well to do Elizabethan woman might have looked something like this: make up base of white of lead and sulfur, various dyes on the cheeks, beauty spots drawn on, eyebrows plucked thin, lips thickly lipsticked, hair powered pinned and perfumed.” (Tomecek, Jan) These individual parts of the dresses that the women would wear included the bodice, partlet, sleeves, ruffs

find a job in a shop or in a factory, but she had no chance of working as a businesswoman or a banker or a lawyer. Women’s fashions in the US and Europe at that time supported this idea of their position in society. Fashionable women wore long dresses that almost touched the ground. This made it difficult for them to drive a car, ride a horse or even walk quickly. As a result, they